Many employees whose position at Twitter was to take input and register customer concerns are among the recently eliminated jobs. It's as if the message is: we don't want your input...
CloudWorld was a show about the stack and infrastructure, from databases to cloud data centers, as well as the platforms. It was designed to say that Oracle has the goods to support global business with minimal technical debt
CloudWorld, Oracle's rebranded user conference, kicks off this week in Las Vegas. The venue change during Covid also changed the vibe of the conference that once dominated San Francisco, but it's for the best
Regardless of how the Twitter acquisition turns out, it looks like the big winner will be CRM, both the industry and the ticker symbol
Salesforce is reinventing itself. Again. It’s been a long time arriving, but Salesforce is changing by doing its best to change the economy and the ground rules business has been operating under since Milton Friedman’s heyday
The company with a radically different product strategy, and a business model that included all stakeholders, continues to do well and to teach those of us willing to learn how business can be done better in the twenty-first century.
The idea of layoffs might be disconcerting for some. Others might wonder about the acuity of decision making in Redwood Shores or Austin or wherever Oracle does its thinking these days. But there’s a certain logic to it
Oracle's acquisition of health IT company Cerner could turn out to be pure genius. But right now, I see a Gumpian box of chocolates, and what I notice acutely are the missing jobs and resources in CX
Sales and service are tightly related for the simple reason that they center on the newness of a category or product type and thus neophyte customers. When a product or its category are new it takes great effort to explain how something works and demonstrate the benefits.
Some of the technology that drives modern selling is really helpful, but too much seems aimed at scratching the itch of lead generation with no thought to what one does to process a lead
Recently McKinsey & Company did a deep dive on supply-chain planning -- which you might think is a long way from CRM -- but you might be surprised. The shocking finding to me, and the connection with CRM, is the statistic that 73 percent of respondents said that spreadsheets are their primary supply...
The customer version of sustainability requires that we capture scads of data about customers -- and today that means in an ethical and non-snooping way so that we'll have something to feed the monster we call AI
It's time -- past time, really -- to reevaluate sales force automation and maybe consider a new path. That's not as dire as it sounds though. We did a study recently in which we asked over 500 experienced sellers about everything from lead quality to support in the form of resources and even their m...
Back in the day, never mind which one, software development was both easier and harder than it is now. The code you wrote was compiled and it ran. If you were a good programmer, you might have left comments in the code so that later developers could understand how the system was intended to work if ...
Today, we all need to be on platform-based CRM, and we need to become ninjas at platform-based application development and deployment. This especially goes for the newest tools on the platforms which include an array of analytics, machine learning, and voice assistants
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